Shade-roller bracket.



No. 674,4|4= Pat'e'nted May 2|, l90l. "N. I. HOLMES. SHADE ROL LEB BRACKET. (Application filed Nov. 6, 1900.)

Model.)

lNvENTn wr wfiww/ WITNESSES wfim 34.7mm

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

NIS I. HOLMES, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO WILLIAM H. ANDERSON AND OTTO Q. BECKWORTH, OF SAME PLACE.

- SHADE-ROLLER BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,414, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed November 5, 1900. Serial No. 35,583. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NIS I. HOLMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade-Roller Brackets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to curtain-fixtures, and 'has for its object the production of a bracket adapted to receive and to hold a window-shade roller which may be driven into the window-casing in contradistinction to [5 those secured in place by screws.

To this end my invention consists in stamping my bracket from sheet metal (steel being best adapted to the purpose) and so fashioning it as to provide three spur portions, one

of which is adapted to be driven into some part of the window-frame, while another one (or another two) is adapted to serve as a brace or bracket to support the body portion which holds the shade-roller.

My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of my bracket detached; Fig. 2, a front section of window, showing my bracket affixed to the face-casing and to the window-stop; Fig. 3, a side section showing my bracket affixed to the ja'mb-casing, and Fig. 4 a side elevation of my bracket as blanked out and before the spur portions are bent into form.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

A is the window-frame, and B the bracket. In the window-frame A, a is the face-casing, b the jamb-casing, and c the stop-the three portions to which my bracket is adapted to be 0 affixed. This frame A may be of any required size and its casings .or trimmings be of any configurations, my improved bracket being adapted for use on plane, convex, or concave surfaces.

The bracket B is stamped from sheet metal, punches and dies being used for the purpose, its construction being as follows: It is first blanked in the form shown in Fig. 4that is, with a body portion (1 having three longi- 50. tudinally-projecting spurs e, e, and e either or all of which are adapted to be driven into the window frame or casing, and with the notchf, adapted to receive the pin or clutch of the window-shade roller. The three spurs e, e, and e are laterally pierced, having the holes 9 g g therein, the purpose of which will hereinafter be set forth. These blanks are now put through a former, which gives them the proper configuration by bending the spur e laterally to the right and e laterally to the left, (or, vice versa, e to the left and e to the right,) leaving-the spur e parallel with the body portion d.

When affixing my bracket in the face-casing, as at 00, I locate the point of the spur e, and by striking the rear end of the body portion with a hammer I force the spur a into the wood until the laterally-bent spurs eand e contact with the casing, where they serve as braces to give the bracket stability, and should additional security be necessary or desirable I drive nails through the pierced laterally-bent spurs e and 6 which nails being parallel with the embedded spur e are readily drawn out therewith when it becomes necessary to remove the bracket.-

When affixing my bracket in the jamb-casing, as at y, (either the right or left hand jamb,) or'when affixing it in the window-stop, as at z, I drive one or the other of the laterally-bent spurs e or 6 into the wood by striking the face or side of the body portion (1 cpposite the spur to be inserted until the longitudinal spur e contacts with the jamb or stop, where it serves as a brace to give the bracket stability, and should additional security be necessary or desirable I drive a nail through the pierced longitudinal spur e,which nail being parallel with the embedded spur e or e as the case may be, is readily drawn out therewith when removing the bracket.

The advantages which my bracket has over others are, first, it is cheaper in construction yet stronger than others; second, it is more quickly and easily affixed in place and more quickly and easily removed; third, it can be affixed exactly in the place where it should be regardless of beveled, grooved, embossed, or carved surfaces of the casings, and, fourth, it does not damage the casings to the extent of brackets secured in place by screws.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an article of manufacture thehereindescribed shade-bracket, having a longitudinally-extending spur 6, adapted to enter a face-casing, and two laterally-bentspurs e and 6 adapted to enter the jainlrcasing, said spurs being laterally pierced substantially as shown and for the purposes specified.

2. As an artieleof manufacture, thehereindescribed shade-bracket consisting of a body portion formed with a slot f, to receive the pins or clutches of a shade-roller, and having three laterally-pierced spurs, one of which is longitudinal therewith, another one of which is bent laterally to the right, and still another N18 1. HOLMES.

YVitn esses:

E. K. POWERS, H. M. REILEY. 

